Consciousness research in 2025 has shifted from abstract philosophy to concrete lab results, with competing theories now ...

Consciousness is one of those mysteries we usually chalk up to philosophy or late-night thought experiments but scientists are now treating it like a real evolutionary puzzle with practical answers.

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...

John Searle, the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, talked at Google about the philosophy of the mind and the potential for consciousness in artificial ...

Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Many researchers now agree that animal consciousness is more common than once believed. One of the leading animal sentience researchers is LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch. His research is ...